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1. Dune

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Author:
Herbert, Frank
NoveList Series:
Dune novels. Main series volume 1.
Series:
Dune novels. Main volume 1
Lexile measure:
800L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...

2. Long range

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Author:
Box, C. J.
NoveList Series:
Joe Pickett novels volume 20.
Series:
Joe Pickett novels volume 20
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder--a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance--in the riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box"-- After joining the rescue efforts for the victim of a grizzly attack, Joe Picket is called home. Someone is shooting at a prominent local judge, and his wife has been wounded. All signs point to the shots having been taken from an impossibly long...

3. Dark sky: a Joe Pickett novel

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Author:
Box, C. J.
NoveList Series:
Joe Pickett novels volume 21.
Series:
Joe Pickett novels volume 21
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip--but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. When the governor of Wyoming gives Joe Pickett the thankless task of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip, Joe reluctantly treks into the wilderness with his high-profile charge. But as they venture into the woods, a man-hunter...

4. Wolf pack

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Author:
Box, C. J.
NoveList Series:
Joe Pickett novels volume 19.
Series:
Joe Pickett novels volume 19
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife -- and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he's asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only makes him more suspicious. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up...

5. Heir of fire: a Throne of glass novel

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Author:
Maas, Sarah J.
NoveList Series:
Throne of glass novels volume 3.
Series:
Throne of glass novels volume 3
Lexile measure:
910L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak -- but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth ... a truth about her heritage that could change her life -- and her future -- forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about...

6. Personal: a Jack Reacher novel

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Author:
Child, Lee
NoveList Series:
Jack Reacher novels volume 19.
Series:
Jack Reacher novels volume 19
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott--an American marksman gone bad--is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he's out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G-8 summit packed with enough world leaders...

7. Killing Kennedy: the end of Camelot

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Author:
O'Reilly, Bill
Series:
Thorndike Press large print basic
Bill O'Reilly's Killing
Language:
English
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4.8 stars
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This book recounts the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture changing aftermath. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalated, John F. Kennedy struggled to contain the growth of Communism while he learned the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president...

8. JFK: the umbrella conspiracy

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Author:
William Penn
Publisher:
Pegasus Imprimis Press
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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In the 1930's, Adolph Hitler had powerful friends in England who agreed with his anti-Semitic and racist policies. On country weekends, some of the most prominent members of English society, and even the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, gathered at Cliveden Manor. There, on the estate of Lord and Lady Astor, the plotted ways of keeping Great Britain out of a war with Nazi Germany. The Cliveden Set, as they were called, put enormous pressure...

9. The target

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Author:
Baldacci, David
NoveList Series:
Will Robie novels volume 3.
Series:
Will Robie novels volume 3
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English
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4.2 stars
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"The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel. Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are...

10. Act of treason

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Author:
Flynn, Vince, 1966-2013
NoveList Series:
Mitch Rapp novels volume 9.
Series:
Mitch Rapp novels volume 9
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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When a presidential candidate wins the election through sympathy votes two weeks after a terrorist attack kills his wife, CIA operative Mitch Rapp investigates dangerous allegations about the attack's hidden agenda, a case that threatens the government's stability.

11. Extreme prey

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Author:
Sandford, John, 1944 February 23-
NoveList Series:
Prey series volume 26.
Series:
Prey volume 26
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English
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4.5 stars
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"After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of is--until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor and anyone who gets in the way."--

12. 11/22/63: a novel

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Author:
King, Stephen, 1947-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 810L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...

13. The hit

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Author:
Baldacci, David
NoveList Series:
Will Robie novels volume 2.
Series:
Will Robie novels volume 2
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.

14. Julius Caesar

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
SmartPass
Folger Shakespeare Library
New swan Shakespeare
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

15. Assassination: a history of political murder

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Author:
Porter, Lindsay
Publisher:
Overlook Press
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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16. Killing Lincoln: the shocking assassination that changed America forever

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Author:
O'Reilly, Bill
Series:
Thorndike Press large print nonfiction
Bill O'Reilly's Killing
Language:
English
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5 stars
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This book is a historical narrative of the events that surrounded the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The book recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history, how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally came to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln's generous terms for Robert E. Lee's surrender are devised to fulfill...

17. Star wars, episode II, attack of the clones

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Ten years after the events of Phantom menace, Senator Padme Amidala survives an assassination attempt as she returns to Coruscant for an important vote. The Jedi Council send Obi-Wan Kenobi and Annikin Skywalker to protect her. After tracking the assassin, Obi-Wan is sent to Kamino to continue their investigations while Annikin is sent with Amidala to Naboo. While Annikin and Amidala are falling in love on Naboo, Obi-Wan is investigating the connection...

18. The annals of unsolved crime

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Author:
Epstein, Edward Jay, 1935-2024
Publisher:
Melville House
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Language:
English
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The product of more than 40 years of investigative work: an insightful guide to some of the most controversial and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years Edward Jay Epstein's book on the Kennedy assassination" Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth" was one of the first books on the case and an instant bestseller. After interviewing every member of the Warren Commission, Epstein concluded that enough remained uninvestigated...

19. Red

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Publisher:
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Language:
English
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4.8 stars
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DVD RED
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Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.

20. The conspirator

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Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, planned the simultaneous...
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